£25M A Lot For Arsenal To Pay For A Reserve – Plus Remy News

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

1:41pm Monday, September 2nd, 2013

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There’s two interesting bits of news today, one is that Loic Remy’s bail has now been extended until November 21st, and there’s a good story being reported by the BBC, that Mike Ashley let Yohan Cabaye hear recordings of the phone conversations with Arsenal about a potential transfer, and Arsenal officials were heard to say that £25M is a lot of money to pay for a reserve.

Yohan Cabaye – £25M a lot to pay for a reserve The news on Remy is as follows, and a Metropolitan Police spokesman said the following;

“I can confirm today that three men who were arrested on the morning of Wednesday 15 May; aged 26, 23 & 22 on suspicion of rape, have now been re-bailed to appear on November 21 2013.”

These things tend to get delayed quite a few times, because it’s not always convenient for footballers to attend their trials – but on the other hand the sooner it’s over with the better.

And BBC’s James Pearce is reporting that the deal for Yohan Cabaye was over, once Newcastle owner Mike Ashley had Yohan listen to the audio recording of telephone conversations with Arsenal officials, and Pearce wrote on his Twitter account:

And that’s also some proof that Mike Ashley was asking £25M for Cabaye, which would have been a phenomenal fee for the Frenchman – and it’s more than the £20M most papers were reporting.

Hopefully Mike Ahsley will keep asking ridiculous fees for our top players, so they can stay on Tyneside, and in any case when they move to ” bigger” clubs they are not guaranteed a first team place – just ask Andy Carroll and Demba Ba.

Yohan Cabaye is staying at Newcastle this season, and that’s good news, unless PSG have a spare £25M to spend, but it would now be too late now to get the deal done.

Mata to liverpool is interesting too. Surely he has to be first choice there. Who makes way for him out of the three that played v man u. Lucas Gerrard or henderson ( i think he started) I think i answered my own question though 😀

you and a lot of other ppl keep saying jfk was hired to get players in if i remeber correctly his main role was to be ashes eyes and ears aka spying on pards and his coaches seeing as he hardley buys playes you have to wonder why he bothers with carr for

I’ve always said that Cabaye would never have been a regular first team choice at Arsenal, because of their strength in that area, whereas he would always be first choice with us.

Whether the telephone call is true or not Cabaye will be better off with us especially for selection in the French national team. He will get regular playing time plus he will be playing with other regulars in the French national squad.

Florian Thauvin‘s expected £12.7m switch to Marseille is ‘just hours away’ according to L’Equipe’s website. Everyone, I think, will be relieved when that long-running and rather ugly saga reaches its conclusion (Lille have accused Marseille of brainwashing the youngster, Thauvin has gone on strike etc).

“It still looks unlikely Thauvin‘s arrival would prompt any departures. Newcastle remain keen on Marseille’s £10m-rated midfielder Andre Ayew, and Bastia have been eyeing his younger brother Jordan Ayew. However, local newspaper La Provence insists both are staying. Andre Ayew certainly didn’t look like a man who wants out during a lung-bursting performance against Monaco last night.

Indian Magpie “On a positive note 1 less day of Pardew’s contract.” – mate, that’s is too funny!!

Seriously can’t see us getting another senior player at the club today. It’s an outrage. We looked decent on Sat during the second half but we just don’t have any goal threat. Style of play doesn’t suit Cisse at all, he’s a passenger.

Sky sources revealing more on Arsenal’s interest in Chelsea striker Demba Ba. The Blues are said to want a £3million loan fee for the striker, but the Gunners have tabled £1.5million. They also face competition for the Senegal international from Napoli and Valencia.

@bobby: I’ve no complaints about the football we played against Fulham but they put out a very poor performance. Not to draw a black cloud on a positive result and performance but we won’t be able to play like that against… well, anybody, really.

I cant decide what is actually worse. no new signings or the fact that all of our targets (aka players that are priced well and would fit our squad but MA has 0 intention of paying anywhere near to market value for) have all ended up elsewhere. If Ba ends up at arse, that is just another sign how much of a joke JFK is. You know Chelsea would MUCH rather send him to us as we are not a threat. The last thing they want is Ba coming back to bight them down the road. Even when its laid on a silver plater, he cant get it done….

Nobody is saying what a bastard and an unscrupulous manipulator and hopeless manager Ashley is for making an employee listen to a conversation in which ridicule is bound to feature. Ashley knows Pardew doesn’t want to lose Cabaye, so what he does is ask a ridiculous fee. That’s fine, but it will have been the ridicule of Arsenal and Ashley’s presumed complicity in it that will have annoyed Cabaye most. Anyway, at least he knows Newcastle are sincere in their love. It’s just that it is unrequited.

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I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in February 2017 and completed four months of chemotherapy in late July and will continue to have hormone treatment.

The cancer spread in the bones, but after having a number of CATscans last Friday the cancer has been stabilized and as of April 24th, 2018 it has not spread further.

There is no cure for Stage 4 cancer so I will continue to have CATscans and bone scans about every four months to check on the cancer.

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